Charlotte, N.C. – North Carolina Police released a photo of missing seniors Friday, including Cornelius Girl Madalina Cojocari, who disappeared from her home on her birthday, November 14, 2022.
To this day, her disappearance has not been resolved and her parents, the main suspect in connection with her disappearance, have been released from prison. Her mother, Diana Cojocari, fled the country after she was released.
“Madalina's investigation began in December 2022,” said David Baucom, head of the Cornelius Police Department, in a video posted on the department's Facebook page on Friday. “Madalina's last time was removed on November 21, 2022. Today, Madalina's 14th birthday.”
“We hope Madalina and this community know that we are committed to solving this case. Our commitment has never wavered and we won't stop until we find Madalina.”
North Carolina police believe the missing girl's mother may have fled to her country after she is released
Missing North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari was only 11 years old when she disappeared in 2022 and is only 14 today. (North Carolina SBI/NCMEC)
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created the age-creation photos released Friday.
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Authorities noted that a $25,000 reward was offered for arrest of people or persons who led to the arrest of Madalina's missing.
Although Madalina last appeared in public on November 21, 2022, she got off the car and her mother and stepfather Christopher Palmiter didn't report her missing until December 15, 2022, although they last told police that they last saw their daughter at home on the evening of November 23, 2022.
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Diana told school officials and Cornelius Police that she had not seen her daughter, a sixth-grade student at Bailey High School, who was born in Moldova and went to the bedroom on November 23, 2022, about November 23, 2022, after she debated with Palmiter.
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Palmiter said he drove to his relative's house in Michigan after an argument with his wife on November 24, 2022, and “restored some items.” The affidavit said that Diana apparently entered her daughter's room around 11:30 that morning and found the 11-year-old boy leaving.
In December last year, authorities arrested and accused the 11-year-old parents, Diana Cojocari and Christopher Palmiter, of failing to go to Madalina from her hometown in Cornelius, north of Charlotte around November 23, 2022. (Mecklenburg County Detention Center)
When Palmiter returned to Cornelius on November 26, Diana apparently asked where his daughter was. Palmit asked her the same question, the affidavit said.
It was not until a school truant report in the 11-year-old middle school that police discovered Madalina's disappearance.
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Bailey Middle School resource officials joined a school counselor for a home visit at Madalina on December 12 at the Cojocari address after school since November 21.
Madalina Cojocari last appeared on November 21, 2022 in Cornelius, North Carolina. (Google Maps/Charlotte FBI)
Diana and Palmiter were arrested and charged with failing to report missing children in 2022.
Diana pleaded guilty after spending several months in prison in May 2024 and authorities released her.
Mecklenburg County jury convicted of criminal Missing children not reported After a week of trial, he was sentenced to 30 months of supervision probation after law enforcement on May 31, 2024.
Madalina Cojocari of Cornelius, North Carolina, last appeared around November 23. (Cornelius Police Department)
Palmiter then filed for divorce, which was officially officially in March this year.
In late June 2024, the Cornelius Police Department appointed Diana as the main suspect in Madalina's disappearance, but by then she had left the United States, possibly Moldova.
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“She ended up leaving the country,” Baucom told Fox News Digital in an interview last year. “I don't know the exact date she left the country,” said Bao Kang, who later added that there were no restrictions that could prevent her from escaping from the United States.
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Bowcomb noted that when Diana was initially arrested in 2022,[s]In the initial part of the investigation, he was charged and provided us with the only charges that could be sustained. ”
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The police can contact Diana was still in Cornelius after her release, but officials have since lost her exact whereabouts and have contacted federal authorities to help her track her overseas.
Diana lives in the United States with a green card. Baucom said last year that based on their investigation, until then, the Cornelius Police Department did not believe Madalina had ever left the United States, although they did not dismiss any possibility.
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According to telephone records obtained by the Cornelius Police Department, the search warrant in the case suggested that Diana and her mother contacted a distant relative and asked if he would help him “smuggle” Diana and Madalina from Cornelius' home.
Authorities are asking anyone about the whereabouts of Madalina, please call CPD at 704-892-7773.
